Berlin, 12th March 2019: The power cut in Berlin-Köpenick in mid-February demonstrated just how vulnerable the infrastructure of a modern 21st-century metropolis can be. Moreover, it became ap-parent that there is much room for improvement when it comes to managing disasters. The impact was considerable. Although mo-bile phone networks, for example, may fail when there is no elec-tricity, alerts and communications from security and disaster relief forces must be reliably guaranteed. This is one of the purposes for which e*Message operates Europe’s largest security radio network. The “magic word” is redundancy - this must be reliably guaranteed.